(70 ILCS 1870/8) (from Ch. 19, par. 758)
Sec. 8. The District has power to acquire and accept by purchase, lease,
gift, grant or otherwise any property and rights useful for its purposes and to
provide for the development of channels, ports, harbors, airports,
airfields, terminals, port facilities, terminal facilities, and other
transportation facilities within the Port District adequate to serve the
needs of commerce within the area served by the Port District. The Port
District may acquire real or personal property or any rights therein in the
manner, as near as may be, as is provided for the
exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act, except that no property owned by any municipality
within the Port District shall be taken or appropriated without first
obtaining the consent of the governing body of such municipality.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
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